Watercolor College
A watercolor course for beginners to advanced. Over 80 hours of watercolor classes and over 200 watercolor lessons. The most comprehensive online watercolor course ever created. Scroll down to learn more!
Have you ever wanted to learn how to paint with watercolor but been frustrated with online watercolor lessons? Watercolor College was created to remove that frustration. Designed with expert classes that build logically upon each other, and jammed packed with over 80 hours of lessons, it truly is the most comprehensive and logical online watercolor learning site ever created.
This quick video shows an overview of the course containing over 80 hours of watercolor classes. No other online watercolor class offer this much content, and it is all presented in logical, step-by-step lessons that build upon each other.
Free Lesson
In this free lesson from the beginner module, we show you how to paint a group of trees. This is just one of over 200 watercolor lessons in the course.
Check out the free sample pack
Our sample pack contains several lessons and partial lessons from the course as well as montages from all of the modules showing snippets of different lessons. It also includes the supply list for the course and other useful information. Check it out for free!
If you are like many people, you might think that watercolor classes frequently leave too many things unexplained. How many times have you watched a watercolor lesson and thought:
"Why did they wet the paper now, but not before?"
"Why did they choose Ultramarine Blue instead of Phthalo Blue?"
At watercolor college, we went to great lengths to explain every thought and decision of the instructor. For example:
"We want to wet the paper here because wet-in-wet will provide us with soft edges. Soft edges help shapes recede into the distance."
We use Ultramarine Blue when we want more texture. We use Phthalo Blue when we want a smoother wash.
Go beyond just "how to paint this..." videos. Learn from in-depth discussions and demonstrations of watercolor skills and concepts. With a Premium Membership, receive one-on-one instructor feedback. With every membership, in addition to comprehensive video lessons, every beginner painting lesson includes written step-by-step instructions, along with tips and advice. For example:
What is the difference between a flat wash and a graded wash?
What is granulation and how do you achieve it?
How do you properly use masking fluid?
How do you know what order to paint things in a watercolor painting?
What is atmospheric perspective and how do I use it?
How do I avoid back-runs?
Want to see a small sample of some of the written watercolor tutorials, tips, and advice? Check out the Free Watercolor Article Library.
As you probably know, learning watercolor is often a scattered, arbitrary, and inefficient journey. Watercolor College was designed to specifically fix this problem by providing a course that is sequential, logical, and comprehensive.
This collage shows how lessons build in the watercolor course.
In the Beginner Module, first you learn to paint a single tree using wet-in-wet washes and direct painting.
Then you learn to paint a tree and a sky together.
Next you learn to paint hills and a wet-in-wet sky.
Then you paint lots of trees together.
Next up, you paint trees, sky, and water together.
And later in the Intermediate Module you bring everything together for a larger, more complex watercolor painting!
The Core Watercolor Course is grouped into 4 modules: Supplies and Best Practices, Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced. In addition, all memberships include a Workshops Module full of bonus lessons, tips, and techniques.
To learn about the topics and paintings covered in each module, check out the links below:
The Watercolor College Core Course includes all of the modules below:
All testimonials are from real customers, each one a different person, and 100% authentic.
"I am just finishing the Intermediate part of the course and I would like to say a huge THANK YOU!! At 75 I had just about given up being able to paint, despite many previous attempts at getting it right. Now, I look at the work I am doing and am loving it...I love the encouragement and kindness that allows us all to do our best and progress through the course at our own pace. I am really looking forward to the Advance part of the course. A few months ago I looked at it and thought 'that could never be me', and now it is!"
"The course is absolutely fabulous, and I can't stop talking about you and all that I am learning. I am half the way through Chapter Two. Your instruction, high def video taping and easy manner make it all so satisfying as a beginner."